Growing Your Own Vegetables: An Encyclopedia Of Country Living Guide - Plot & Excerpts
Along with bean and cereal crops, edible gourds were humankind’s first cultivated crops. To help make garden-sense of this large and sometimes complicated botanical family, this chapter classifies plants as follows:Cucumbers (including citron) Melons (cantaloupe, muskmelon, and watermelon) SquashesSummer squashes (zucchini and the like) Winter squashes (including pumpkin) Exotic squashes (bitter melon, calabaza, chayote, fuzzy melon, and spaghetti squash) Craft gourdsCucumbers Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) like warm weather and lots of sunshine. Varieties include the familiar green salad cuke; thin-skinned pickling types; small, rounded yellow lemon cucumbers; and long crooked varieties from Asia. High-yielding, disease-resistant, modern cucumber hybrids produce self-fertile plants bearing only female flowers.Citron, a cucumber relative (not to be confused with the citrus fruit that goes by the same name) looks like a small, round watermelon but has solid, uniformly green flesh and seed.
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